Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX76768719

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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

NOTE: Clicking on the icons for each monument in the map will give the name of the monument. Where icons overlap they are replaced with an icon with a number - zooming in may separate them out.

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & CairnsOS Map:SX 76744 87691NMR record:SX 78 NE 5HER record:8308Megalithic Portal:3375Alternate name: Mardon Down Pillared Circle 5 Embanked Cairn CircleShortName: CC:Mardon 5Butler Vol 5: p.150 & Fig.92DPD page: 149Grinsell: MOR 1Turner: B6Notes: Turner B6. This is an impressive cairn circle with a well preserved ring of large pillars surrounded by an outer kerb ring of smaller slabs on their edges. The cairn is 11m. in diameter and 0.5m. high, with a well preserved cairn circle comprising a 9.0m. diameter circle of spaced uprights averaging 0.8m. high, with kerbing between. Unlike the stone circle it is marked on the OS Okehampton and North Dartmoor Landranger map (Sheet 191). It is easy to confuse this cairn with the less well preserved stone circle which is a few hundred metres to the south.Nearby sites:SX76748769Distance: 0.5km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & CairnsOS Map:SX 76764 87203NMR record:SX 78 NE 19HER record:8289Megalithic Portal:3376PMD:Mardon Down Stone CircleShortName: SC:Mardon DownButler Vol 5: p.148 & Fig.90DPD page: 149Turner: G1Notes: Mardon Down stone circle is the biggest by circumference on Dartmoor with a diameter of 38m. The site would have been impressive in its day and is one of the only ones sited on the top of high ground and has a fine view of the surrounding area. Today the circle is fairly dilapidated. Six stones remain upright and another 16 lie roughly in place. There are two massive megaliths one of which is on the north-western part of the circle. A short arc of seven stones remains in position on the south-east of the circle. The circle was first described by Dr Milles in 1772 who reported around 70 stones. Butler suggests it probably originally consisted of around 61 stones many of which are probably buried under the peat where they originally fell although some have no doubt been robbed out.Nearby sites:SX76768720Distance: 0.01km